[Added Patch 12.19 & TFT notes]
Tonight’s red post collection includes a preview of Preseason 2023 changes coming to the PBE soon, the latest from the Game Loop team on matchmaking & champion select, and more!
Continue reading for more information!
Table of Contents
Patch 12.19 Notes
“Fighter Blitzcrank buffs? AP Rakan buffs? Is this real life, or is this patch 12.19?
In this patch we’ll be introducing Syndra’s midscope update, make sure to read on to learn more about all of her adjusted and upgraded abilities! This patch also contains quite a few buffs to some off-meta builds, a Janna VFX update that’ll blow you away, and information on the new Event Pass Evolved System. Thanks for reading and see you on the Rift!
The winds of change are hitting the Convergence too, check out the TFT patch notes here!
LILU “RIOT RIRU” CABREROS
PAUL “RIOTAETHER” PERSCHEID
PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
Spirit Blossom Aphelios, Spirit Blossom Darius, Spirit Blossom Evelynn, Spirit Blossom Master Yi, Spirit Blossom Sett, Spirit Blossom Soraka, Spirit Blossom Syndra, Spirit Blossom Tristana, Spirit Blossom Yorick, and Prestige Spirit Blossom Master Yi will be available October 6, 2022.”
[Full Patch Notes Here!]
Teamfight Tactics Patch 12.19 Notes
Here’s the TFT Patch 12.19 Notes:
“Back in my day, the Dragonlands were about a boy and his yeti, some Dragon loathing reroll comps, and a 5 Dragon chase trait.
Now Scalescorn get along with Dragons, Dragonmancer Nunu is counterable, and there’s a 6 Dragon chase trait?! What have the Dragonlands come to? All that and the long-awaited Secrets of the Shallows event are coming this patch. The Secrets of the Shallows event will be playable starting October 5th at 11 AM Pacific Time, until November 1st.
RODGER “RIOT PRISM” CAUDILL”
Preseason 2023: Preview
Here’s Riot Riru with a
preview of Preseason 2023 changes
coming to the PBE in the 12.20 cycle – “A quick-and-easy reference guide for all
Preseason 2023 content coming to PBE.”
Preseason 2023 changes will begin hitting PBE tomorrow! Before they’re out, we
wanted to walk you through all of the changes you can expect to see roll out
to PBE over the next few weeks. We’re shipping them a bit early this year to
give us time to test changes and gather your feedback, so make sure you get
those games in because there’s plenty to try out!
Housekeeping note: Things will be in a pretty early state when you first see
them, so expect changes to things like icons, item and effect names, visual
and sound effects, stat values, and more as we continue to test features
during PBE. Barring massive table-flips, this preview page won’t be updated
after publishing. When the patch notes come out, they’ll have all the final
details as usual.
The Return of Chemtech
Chemtech Drake will be returning this preseason with a brand new buff and
soul!
- Chemtech Drake will now grant a small amount of Tenacity and Heal/Shield
strength when slain- Chemtech Soul will grant bonus damage when below a certain amount of
healthAlongside the Chemtech Drake, the Rift will take on a new Chemtech-inspired
appearance featuring Zaunite chemicals and mutated jungle plants with upgraded
effects.
- Blast Cones will now blast those in range twice as far as before
- Honey Fruits will upgrade into Stim Fruits, no longer slowing champions
that consume them and granting a small bonus shield in addition to the
usual heal- Scryer’s Bloom will upgrade into Stalker’s Bloom. When hit these plants
will now reveal a small circular area around the plant and a cone opposite
of the direction it was hit, granting movement speed towards revealed
enemy champions and reducing wards revealed to 1 health.
Jungle Improvements
Avatar Smites and Jungle Pets
The jungle is a dangerous
place and it’s dangerous to go alone, so take one of these jungle pets by
purchasing them in the in-game shop as an egg! These pets will acquire
“treats” through monster kills and slowly over time as the game progresses
which will help them evolve. Once evolved, pets will give their owners Avatar
buffs which empower them with different abilities.
- Noxian Embercat*: This will be the pet of choice for junglers looking to
play more aggressively. It will provide slows and bonus damage.- Ixtali Ixamander*: This jungle pet is perfect for junglers looking to
frontline and tank for their teams. It will provide a shield based on your
health that provides bonus slow resist and Tenacity when broken.- Ionian Cloudleaper*: This jungle pet will be great for junglers looking to
rotate and move around the map more quickly. It will provide bonus
movement speed.
Leashing Range Indicators
In an effort to make the jungle more welcoming to players unfamiliar with the
role, we’ll be adding visual leashing indicators that will show how far camps
can be pulled before their patience starts diminishing. We’re also decreasing
the distance camps can be pulled, so no more having to stand on the perfect
pixel in order to hyper-optimize your jungle clears.
Recommended Jungle Paths
Another addition we have to help make the jungle more accessible are
recommended jungle paths for every champion. These first clear paths were
determined by gathering data from high skilled junglers on their high mastery
champs across the globe. Pathing recommendations are based on which routes
most often led these players to a victory and will be updated each
patch.
Communication Tools
Updated Ping Wheel
League is a team game at its core. In order to better facilitate communication
between teammates we’re doubling the number of pings available to players. The
8 pings on the wheel will now be as follows:
- Returning Pings (clockwise): Retreat, On My Way, Assist Me, Enemy Missing
- New Pings (clockwise): Push, All-In, Hold, Bait
New Vision Pings
We’re also adding an entirely new ping wheel that focuses primarily on vision.
Using this wheel, you can now indicate the following:
- (from left to right) Vision Cleared, Enemy Vision, Need Vision
Objective Voting
Getting your team on board with taking an objective can be difficult and
having everyone ping On My Way if they can contest or Retreat if they can’t
can get very confusing. We’re introducing a new voting function that will
appear when objectives are pinged that will function similarly to a
surrender vote. Now all players can vote and indicate whether or not they’d
like to take or contest that objective.
Off Screen Pings
The last communication change we have for you is a small quality-of-life
update that will notify which direction an off-screen ping came from by
displaying it on the edge of your screen. Enemy Missing pings will show on
your screen regardless of where they are pinged on the map while Retreat, On
My Way, Assist Me, Hold, All-In, and Push pings will only be displayed if
they’re pinged within 3000 units (approximately corner to corner of your
screen when fully zoomed out or 20 Teemo’s) of your screen’s edge.
Vision System Updates
Allied Ward Tracking
While there are currently ways to see how many wards you have out, there
isn’t a quick way to check which wards are closest to expiring other than
manually looking at every ward placed. We’re introducing new ward visuals on
the minimap that will indicate when wards are close to expiring. They will
change appearance when wards reach 60 and 30 seconds remaining before they
expire.
Enemy Ward Timers
It can be hard to keep track of every single ward that gets placed on the
map and even harder to successfully communicate that information to your
teammates. Now, if you ping an enemy ward that you saw them place within the
last 10 seconds, a perfectly accurate ward timer will appear until the ward
is removed or expires.
Loadout and Ability Recommendations
Recommended Rune Pages and Summoner Spells
Another change we’re excited to introduce are optional recommended rune
pages and summoner spells in champ select. Once you lock in your champion,
you’ll see a recommended runes button to the left of the edit rune pages
button. Opening this interface will display up to 3 rune and summoner spell
setups you’ll be able to select to use in game. This system is still being
fine tuned, so you can expect to see more on this later on in
preseason.
These recommendations will be updated once per patch and are informed by
what setups are optimal and popular. Of course, you’re always welcome to
theorycraft and bring whatever loadouts you want!
Recommended Abilities
We’re also helping players in-game by providing them with recommended
ability level ups. These will indicate which abilities are typically ranked
up at each level and, similar to the above, will be updated once a patch
based on what is currently optimal.
Top Lane Changes
We’ll also be making some adjustments to help top laners scale faster and
hit those key item and level breakpoints faster relative to mid and bot. The
changes will be as follows:
- Solo Lane Experience: Solo lanes will now receive a 95% experience
multiplier (previously 93%) from minions- Duo Lane Experience: Duo lanes will now receive a 22% bonus experience
multiplier (previously 24.73%) from minions- Mid Lane Gold Changes: All minions spawned in the mid lane will now be
worth 1 less gold before 14 minutes when last hit (previously, only
cannon minions were worth less gold, but were worth 10 less gold)New and Updated Items
We’re introducing 12 new/updated items in this preseason! As a disclaimer,
please note that item stats, effects, and even names are subject to change
while on PBE.
- Icathia’s Endurance (Mythic Item)
- 400 Health
- 30 Armor
- 30 Magic Resist
- 20 Ability Haste
- Voidborn Resilience: For each second in champion combat gain a stack
granting 3 Armor and Magic Resist, up to 10 max. At max stack become
empowered, instantly draining enemies around you for 4% of your
maximum health each (reduced to 1% against minions and monsters) and
doubling your resists from stacks until end of combat (60 second
cooldown).- Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items 5 Armor and
Magic Resist- Radiant Virtue (Mythic Item)
- 400 Health
- 30 Armor
- 30 Magic Resist
- 20 Ability Haste
- Guiding Light: Upon casting your ultimate you Transcend, increasing
your maximum health by 10% for 9 seconds. While Transcended you and
allies within 1200 range of you gain 25 non-ultimate Ability Haste.
You and allies will also heal for 1.5% of your maximum health every 3
seconds, increased by up to 100% based on that champion’s missing
health. Healing is doubled on yourself (90 second cooldown).- Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items 100 Health
- Iceborn Gauntlet (Mythic Item)
- 400 Health
- 40 Armor
- 20 Ability Haste
- Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack is enhanced with
an additional 100% base AoE physical damage and creates a frost field
for 2.5 seconds. Enemies that move across the field are slowed by 15%
+ 0.003% of your maximum health. Your primary target is slowed for
double the amount and has their damage against you reduced by 10% for
2.5 seconds (1.5 second cooldown).- Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items 50 health, 5%
Tenacity, and 5% Slow Resist- Goliath’s Ascendiary (Mythic Item)
- 800 Health
- 200% Base Health Regeneration
- 20 Ability Haste
- Colossal Consumption: Charge up a powerful attack against a champion
over 3 seconds while within 600 range of them. The charged attack
drains the target, dealing 50 + 10% of your maximum health as bonus
physical damage and healing you for that same amount. You permanently
gain maximum health equal to 15% of the drain (30 second cooldown per
target) (note: Maximum health will be lost if the item is sold).- Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items 1% increased health
and 6% champion size- Rod of Ages (Mythic Item)
- 60 Ability Power
- 300 Health
- 300 Mana
- This item gains 20 health, 20 mana, and 4 ability power every
minute, up to 10 times, for a maximum of 200 health, 200 mana, and 40
ability power. Upon reaching max stacks, gain a level (Note: the level
cap will remain at 18).- Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items 5 Ability Haste
- Catalyst of Aeons
- 225 Health
- 300 Mana
- Eternity: Restore mana equal to 15% of damage taken from
champions, and health equal to 20% of mana spent, up to 15 health per
cast. Toggled abilities can only heal for up to 15 health per second.- Abyssal Mask
- 500 Health
- 300 Mana
- 40 Magic Resist
- 10 Ability Haste
- Eternity: Restore mana equal to 15% of damage taken from champions,
and health equal to 20% of mana spent, up to 15 health per cast.
Toggled abilities can only heal for up to 15 health per second.- Unmake: Curse nearby enemy champions, reducing the Magic Resist by 5 +
1.5% bonus health (maximum of 25). For each Cursed enemy, gain 9 Magic
Resist.- A champion can only be Cursed by one enemy at a time (prioritizing the
most potent Curse)- Sunfire Aegis (No longer a Mythic Item)
- 400 Health
- 50 Armor
- Immolate: Taking or dealing damage causes you to begin dealing 15
(+ 1.75% of bonus health) magic damage to nearby enemies (increased by
25% against minions and 150% against jungle monsters) for 3 seconds.
Damaging champions or epic jungle monsters with this effect adds a
stack, increasing subsequent Immolate damage by 10% for 5 seconds (6
stacks maximum).- Turbo Chemtank (No longer a Mythic Item)
- 450 Health
- 50 Magic Resist
- 10 Ability Haste
- Active – Supercharged: Grants 40% movement speed towards enemies or
enemy turrets for 4 seconds. Once near an enemy (or after 4 seconds) a
shockwave is emitted that slows nearby champions by 40% for 1.5
seconds (90 second cooldown).- Randuin’s Omen
- 400 Health
- 70 Armor
- Active – Humility: Briefly slow nearby enemies by 55% for 2 seconds
(60 second cooldown)- Rock Solid: Reduce incoming damage from attacks by up to 5 (+ 0.35% of
maximum health)%, capped at 40% of the attack’s damage- Critical Resilience: Critical Strikes deal 20% less damage to you
- Spear of Shojin
- 65 Attack Damage
- 300 Health
- 20 Ability Haste
- Dragonforce: Your non-ultimate spells gain (6 + 10% of bonus AD for
Melee champions / 4 + 6% of bonus AD for Ranged Champions) Ability
Haste, reduced to (3 + 5% of bonus AD for Melee champions / 42+ 3% of
bonus AD for Ranged Champions) Ability Haste for immobilizing spells- Exigency: Gain up to (15% for Melee champions / 10% for Ranged
champions) increased movement speed, based on your missing health
(maxed out when below 33% health)- Ravenous Hydra
- 65 Attack Damage
- 20 Ability Haste
- 9% Omnivamp
- Cleave: Attacks and abilities deal (60% for Melee champions / 30% for
Ranged Champions) physical damage to other enemies within 350 units of
the target hit- Carnivorous: Gain 0.5 AD and 0.1% Omnivamp whenever you kill an
enemy, stacking up to 25 AD and 5% omnivamp. Lose 50% of these
stacks on death.- Can only hit each target once per attack or ability every 10
seconds- Cleave does not trigger on structures
And that concludes the Preseason 2023 PBE preview. We can’t wait to see
how all of you will use these tools to level up your game and what fun
discoveries you’ll make as you test out all of these changes. Thanks for
reading and we hope to see you on the Rift!”
Want to leave constructive feedback on these upcoming changes? Check out the
feedback threads below:
Here’s a few extra tweets on the changes:
I’ve mostly been working on jungle stuff this preseason, but had a little extra time and slipped in a Navori change.
I think I forgot to flag it for the preseason preview article 😔
Note:
🥐Exclusive with IE
🥐All attacks get the refund, not just crits
🥐NOT FINAL TUNING ETC. pic.twitter.com/STTmycV9sW— Phlox (@RiotPhlox) October 3, 2022
Oh some ppl are mis-understanding the XP changes. Shared XP is a multiplier on solo XP. so the difference is .93 x 1.2473 – .95 x 1.22, which is basically nothing
— Riot Captain Gameplay (@riot_captain) October 3, 2022
Matchmaking & Champion Select – Fall 2022
Here’s Riot Auberaun with the
most recent updates
from the Game Loop team – “Insight from the Game Loop team on some recent
and upcoming changes”
“It’s been a while since we’ve talked about some of our around-game
systems, so let’s get into it. To set some context, internally we’re
called the Game Loop team, and we’re responsible for all of the around
game things that contribute to and affect your experience in the game,
like Matchmaking, Champion Select, and the various Summoner’s Rift queue
types you use to select the type of play you want. Overall what we want to
do is set you up with fair matches and then after you hit that “Accept!”
button, give you the tools that let you prepare yourself and your team for
in-game success.
Recent updates
First, let’s get into updates on some of
the things
we talked about last time.
- Revival MMR: Updates to calibrating the skill of players just
getting back into the game rolled out in 12.16 to normal queues. Since
then, we’ve seen a jump in returning player first-game winrates from
44.5% to 48%, reaching 50% by game 10 (up from 48% by game 10).- Solo Only Mode: We’re not currently planning to separate solo
and duo parties in Ranked. While we still believe in the logic for why
this could be a good idea, we first need to make sure that duo players
have another place for a compelling competitive experience. Flex queue
doesn’t currently meet that bar.- Re-evaluating our Summoner’s Rift queue portfolio: Related to
the above bullet, this is something we’re interested in digging into
going into next year. Specifically, we think there’s a lot of untapped
potential in the spaces Blind Pick and Normal Draft are serving (which
by the way a big proportion of players queue up for today, not
everyone plays ranked!).In a similar vein, we’ve been able to tackle some other new work that’s
shipped recently.
- Role Parity Matchmaking Improvements: In 12.16 we made changes
to matchmaking to put additional emphasis on matching players by
position preference in Ranked Solo/Duo. In other words, trying to
match primaries against primaries, secondaries against secondaries,
and autofills against autofills. These changes have been quite
successful, increasing the total number of games with role parity by
around 15-30% depending on region. In other words, you’re less likely
to be playing secondary top against that 800 game Riven main.- Rank-Based Matchmaking Adjustments: A side effect of using
visible rank to define fair matchmaking is that after the initial
ranked rush in January, returning players, late season starters, and
smurfs end up matched together frequently. This is because they all
have significantly mismatched MMR and visible rank, whereas everyone
else has already stabilized. In 12.17 we made tweaks to ranked
matchmaking to more quickly accept differences based on visual rank.What’s coming next
Now the more fun stuff! We’re
exploring several updates to Champion Select functionality that we think
will upgrade the experience in ways that haven’t been touched in a while.
Optimistically, we’ll be getting these out by the end of the year:
- Champion Select Anonymity: Today, a lot of players use external
websites and third-party apps that provide all sorts of information
about their teammates. With this information, players are drawing
conclusions that aren’t necessarily correct and pressuring their
teammates into things that they might not want to do, like picking the
exact same champion every game because it’s their highest winrate or
most played. We think the best version of League is not one where you
metagame based on the players in your lobby, weigh who’s on a win or
loss streak or playing a different champion, and dodge or pressure
others to dodge when your setup doesn’t meet perfect conditions. We’re
still thinking about details of implementation here, but our starting
point is likely to be hiding all Summoner names in Champion Select for
Ranked Solo/Duo.
- To expand on this point, we recognize that there are legitimate
reasons that someone might need to dodge a lobby, but there
are also a lot that aren’t done in good faith. We want to impact
the motivations behind why dodging occurs to reduce the frequency
in a natural way.- Pick Order Swapping: This is a commonly requested feature that
we already see in Wild Rift. Today, you have to go through an
extensive discussion in chat to effectively swap your pick order – can
I pick for you? Do you have my champion? Do I have your champion?
There are a lot of ways this can break down in one way or another, and
this is assuming that everyone in the lobby even speaks the same
language! By letting teams swap pick order with the press of a button,
we hope to streamline the process of crafting your draft to be
successful.- Loadout Recommender: Like we provide item recommendations in
the game, we want to provide rune and Summoner Spell recommendations
during champ select. This should help narrow the gap between players
who are comfortable with the rune and Summoner Spell systems and those
who aren’t. We want to reduce barriers to entry and ensure players
have the best possible experience with the runes system when initially
ramping up on the game. Additionally, this should be helpful for more
veteran players who might currently go to external websites or apps to
learn what to take on a champion they’re not familiar with.
That’s it for now! Given some recent reorganization and a sharper focus,
we’re optimistic about being able to move more quickly in these spaces
than we have in the past, and are continuing to evaluate new opportunities
and some big bets for next year.”
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